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Newsroom management and new media, a lecture delivered to mid-career journalists at the Sri Lanka College of Journalism (SLCJ)
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Social networks & new mediaBane or boon for newsroom management?
Sanjana Hattotuwa
TEDGlobal Fellow 2010Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)
what is social media?
• Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
what is new media?
• New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies.
• New media is not television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications. (Wikipedia)
• But increasingly, old media is leveraging the web, Internet and mobiles in generating and disseminating news and information.
new media and foundations
• Blogs
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook)
• Google Maps and mashups
• Mobiles: SMS, mobile photography and video
• VoIP: Skype, Google Chat
• And making it all possible are ADSL, 3G wireless broadband
what’s new
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Both news generation and dissemination leverages new media
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• Citizens as producers
• Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media
enduring challenges
• Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain
• Torrent of information. Trickle of knowledge.
• Veracity / Verifiability hard to determine
• Post-disaster communications can be unreliable and difficult. Eye-witness accounts are partial, subjective.
• New media / technology illiteracy even amongst journalists
• Apathy and animosity against citizen journalism
• Licensing and attribution of online content
What is out there?
online video: Vikalpa YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/vikalpasl
kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org
sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
sinhala bloggers union: blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
online video: Perambara YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/internewslanka
alternative politics in Sinhala: Vikalpa www.vikalpa.org
twitter: new perspectives
Managing content: Pushing out
essential email: Gmail
essential sinhala unicode toolshttp://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter
transliterating sinhala unicodehttp://www.google.com/transliterate/sinhalese
transliterating tamil unicodehttp://www.google.com/transliterate/tamil
wordpress.com: blogging
ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC
bambuser.com: mobile phone broadcasting
google maps: plot events
google maps: plot locations
Managing content: Pushing out
Investigative journalism
drop.io: reports through audio
Managing content: Pulling in
google search: Updates from social media
google news: thousands of sources
google reader: a web based RSS reader
web based document management: google docs
google calendar: web based story planning
know your twitter hastags (#lka #srilanka)http://www.twitter.com
twitter: desktop aggregation via Seesmic Lookseesmic.com/look
news management toolkit
key points: recap
• New technologies potentially give voice to all citizens
• Be sceptical of new information, but use new media to push and pull content
• Develop media literacy to embrace new technologies
Thank you
